Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-01-22

numbers Of repeating rifles for the army, in
accordance with the report Of a military
commission.
The International Union Of Bricklayers
and Masons, in session at Washington, has
adopted resolutions opposing the Socialists
and Anarchists.
Smuggling has beed detected in the sleep
ing cars which cross the river at Detroit.
Por.ers are in the habit Of carrying dutiable
goods over the line.
The largest English importer of live beef
from the United States says that Kentucky
beef is now selling in London at the same
price as the best English beef.
1t is stated that the sufferers in Texas
caused by the drought last Summer and of
previous years number $4,000, and their
wants are Of an imperitive character.
The tenants on the Clanicarde estates at
Loughrea, Ireland, have resolved to seek
protection in bankruptcy, in which plan they
are ssid to have the sympathy Of all outside
creditors.
J. J. Upchurch, better known as ''Father"
Upchurch, the founder Of the organization
known as the Ancient Order Of United
Workmen, died at his residence at St. Louis
last Tuesday.
c. H. Cole, owner of the yacht Dauntless,
has accepted the challenge Of Capt. Bush,
owner Of the Coronet, for race across the
Atlantic to Queenstown, next March, for
wager of $4,000.
Oxford University is now open to men of
all ranks, and the expenses incident to resi-
dence so decreased that men Of comparative
small means find little difficulty in main
tanning their sons there.
| DR.. VIM. Perry, the Oldest graduate of
Harvard College, and the last survivor Of
Fulton's steamboat ride down the Hudson
river, expired January nth at Exeter, N.
| H., at the age Of ninety-eight.
Prince Augustin Iturbide, son Of Mexico's
first Emperor, seriously wounded Senior Cur.
cedo, prominent politician, in duel a
shot time since, and has taken refuge at FL
Paso, Tex. for fear of prosecution.
Some school children in ireland being
asked whether, as a treat, they would be
taken to the Crystal Palace, or to Nine.
Tussard's, they replied that they would rath-
er 60 where they could see Mr.. Parnell.
The A. T. Stewart gallery Of paintings,
sculptures and other art objects is to be sold
under the management Of the American Art
Association, and an illustrated edition of the
catalogue will be offered for sale at $25 a
copy.
Seven persons have been arrested for the
murder of the Poe family in Knox county,
KY, last October. The family consisted Of
eight persons, whose charred remains were
found in the ashes of the house which they
occupied.
Frenchmen belonging to the Territorial
Army to stay in Alsace- Lorraine longer than
a few days, some manufacturers in that
province who are in sympathy with France
having evinced a preference for French
workmen.
Track on the extension Of the Gulf, Col.
orado and Santa Fe is now completed to
GAINESVILLE, Texas, sixty -one miles northward
from Fort Worth. North OF GAINESVILLE the
grading is completed for fifty miles into the
Indian Territory, and track-laying viii be
pushed as fast as possible.
Twelve grown persons and five youths
were crushed to death at a Jewish dramatic
performance in London Tuesday evening.
During the entertainment some one raised
the cry Of FIRE when the gas was turned off,
and in the rush to get out of the building
hundreds were trampled under foot.
A Galveston woman composition, who be-
longed to the Printers Union. married non
union compositor not long ago, and then tried
to get him to Join the order. But he refused.
and the union voted boycott, in which the
wife participated, having left her husband
and begun proceedings for divorce.
There is an apparently well.authentieated
report Of a combination between the gam.
blers Of Sharon, Penn. and the Young
Mems Christian Association of that place,
whereby certain percentages from the profits
from gambling were to 60 to the association
to purchase their friendship and silence.
The Marquis of Queensbery, who is being
sued for divorce, once proposed to substitute
in the marriage ritual Of the English Church
for the words 'Whom God hath Joined to-
gether let no man put asunder" the words,